SIGGRAPH Asia 2012: From Academy Award-winning Production Sessions
to Stellar Technical Research Presentations

SIGGRAPH Asia 2012: From Academy Award-winning Production
Sessions to Stellar Technical Research Presentations

From 28 November to 1 December 2012, the highly regarded and
anticipated ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition will be back in
its inaugural city, Singapore. In its fifth edition this
year, SIGGRAPH Asia continues to advance its position as a global
platform to showcase the region’s best digital innovations
and breakthrough concepts to the world.

This year’s SIGGRAPH Asia will bring together leading
names in the animation, graphics, digital art and technology
industries from around the world. Visitors to the event can expect
to be inspired by visual effects and behind-the-scenes production
presentations from award-winning professionals, as well as discover
upcoming trends and latest research in the field of computer
graphics and interactive techniques.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Trailer

Academy Award-Winning Production Sessions

Academy Award-winning Visual Effects Supervisor, Paul Franklin,
Double Negative, will present a Special Session on the production
of the global box-office hit, The Dark Knight Rises. The conclusion
to director Christopher Nolan's epic Batman trilogy was partly shot
in the IMAX format, a motion picture format with the capacity for
greater size and clearer resolution than standard movie systems.
Franklin will explain how, through close liaison with Nolan, he
developed a unique approach to the challenges of filming with the
IMAX camera, an extremely heavy piece of equipment that is
difficult to maneuver and requires custom-made platforms and
supports.

Another Academy-award winner, Visual Effects Supervisor, Ben
Grossmann, Pixomondo, will share with the SIGGRAPH Asia audience
how he brought the animation film Hugo to life. The production
process behind Hugo was unique as it boasts an international team
across Pixomondo’s facilities in Canada, China, Germany, the
United Kingdom and the United States, who contributed to the more
than 800 stereo 3D visual effects shots in the film. In his
session, Production Workflow on 'Hugo': A New Model of
International VFX, Grossmann will discuss how this method of
leveraging a global pipeline of artists is becoming the new model
for visual effects productions. In addition to addressing the
technical workflow, Grossmann will touch on the benefits and
challenges that arise when working with facilities spread across
the globe.

Attendees to SIGGRAPH Asia will also get a chance to learn more
about the production and creative challenges behind sci-fi movie
Prometheus, as well as hit game, Assassin’s Creed III.
Daniele Bigi, The Moving Picture Company (MPC) will demonstrate how
his team created the imaginary world of distant moon LV-223 in
Prometheus, while Ubisoft’s Georges Torres and Julien Proux
will discuss the technical challenges of taking Assassin’s
Creed III from the American Revolution to the high seas.

Finally, Chief Technical Officer of Lucasfilm, Dave Story will
close the Special Session segment by outlining the projects which
are being developed in Lucasfilm campuses in San Francisco and
Singapore.

Extending the Conversation on the Mobile
Revolution

SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 will also see a return of the Symposium on
Apps, which was first introduced in Hong Kong last year. The second
Symposium on Apps will provide both industry and academia with a
platform to introduce new opportunities in the world of mobile
applications and discuss the challenges of developing a compelling
product for today’s increasingly mobile world. In an Invited
Panel, The Curse of Choice ­ How Will Users Find My App!?, experts
from academia and the industry will delve into the current market
trends for mobile apps development. The lineup of industry experts,
from well-known institutions such as Motorola Research and Yahoo!
Labs, will share their insights and predictions on the future
directions in mobility and mobile applications.

Presenting the Art of Storytelling through
Animation

From the academia, industry professionals and students, the
Computer Animation Festival has always been a favorite among
visitors to SIGGRAPH Asia. Out of a healthy intake of 484
submissions, 31 clips have been selected for the Electronic Theater
and 45 for the Animation Theater. The contributed clips come from
across the world with about half of the selections from Asia and
Europe, cementing SIGGRAPH Asia 2012’s place as a global
platform.

"This year, the submissions we received were really strong,
in terms of marrying great storyline with artistically impressive
graphics," says Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Chair of the SIGGRAPH
Asia 2012 Computer Animation Festival. "The jury focused on
works that are able to tell compelling stories while working in
computer graphics seamlessly into the plot. Audiences at the
Computer Animation Festival can expect to focus on unique
storylines, where the visual effects do not overpower the
plot.”

SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 : Computer Animation Festival Trailer

Showcasing Research Breakthroughs

The quality and depth of submissions this year for the Technical
Papers program saw participation from many of the world’s
most influential institutions. The team from the National Taiwan
University will be demonstrating a ground-breaking rendering method
that is able to handle all types of distributed effects with less
noise than conventional approaches.

Well-known names, such as, Adobe, Disney, and Microsoft Research
Asia have also submitted papers of their latest research on a
variety of topics including acquiring and synthesizing indoor
scenes and techniques to enhance character articulation as well as
creating coherent intrinsic images from photos. Additionally, the
Technical Papers program will also feature acclaimed academic
research institutions like ETH-Zurich, the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Stanford University and the University of
California, Berkeley in the line-up of sessions at SIGGRAPH Asia
2012.

The Courses program at SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 will continue to
provide insights into the technical and the artistic aspects of
film and animation production. Disney Toon Studios will share with
audiences production secrets behind some of their iconic works. The
session will also include a sneak preview of their latest movie to
be released on DVD entitled, The Secret of the Wings. This session
will be led by Vladimir Sierra, Stereoscopic Lead at Disney Toon
Studios, who previously worked with NASA.

Other industry leaders who will speak at the SIGGRAPH Asia
Courses program include AMD, Disney Research Zurich, DreamWorks
Animation, ETH-Zurich, NVIDIA, Pixar Animation Studios and the
University of Utah. Their courses range in topics from GPU
graphics, recent advances in cloth modeling, and story-telling for
films and games. Additionally, there are courses that explore how
Hollywood uses pre-visualization to help create movies.

About SIGGRAPH Asia 2012

The 5th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer
Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia will take place in
Singapore at the EXPO Convention and Exhibition Centre from 28
November to 1 December 2012. This year, the line-up of conference
programs will include the inaugural Technical Briefs, the
continuation of the inspiring Symposium on Apps, the Art Gallery,
Computer Animation Festival, Courses, Emerging Technologies,
Posters, and Technical Papers. There will also be a trade
exhibition from 29 November to 1 December 2012, offering
participants from hardware and software vendors to studios and
educational institutions a platform to market their products and
services to computer graphics and interactive techniques
professionals and enthusiasts from Asia and beyond.

About ACM

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGGRAPH sponsors
SIGGRAPH Asia 2012. ACM is an educational and scientific society
uniting the world's computing educators, researchers, and
professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the
field's challenges. ACM strengthens the profession's collective
voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest
standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports
the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities
for life-long learning, career development and professional
networking.

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